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NISS Welcomes New Board Members!

The direction of any organization is significantly influenced by the experience, fresh ideas and energy of its board. For this reason NISS is very excited to welcome Bhramar Mukherjee, Kate Crespi and Alyson Wilson as new members of the NISS Board of Trustees. They bring a wealth of experience both as statisticians but more importantly as directors and managers of statisticians.

Bhramar Mukherjee, Kate Crespi and Alyson Wilson

Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee is the John D Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is also a Professor of Epidemiology and Global Public Health. She is the Associate Director for Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Administratively she has held positions in the ASA, ENAR, IISA and COPSS including serving as the overall program chair for the Joint Statistical Meetings. She is currently the Chair elect for COPSS for a three-year term starting 2019.

Dr. Kate Crespi is Professor of Biostatistics at the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California Los Angeles, where she is also affiliated with the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has published widely in the areas of cancer, obesity and chronic disease. Dr. Crespi brings experience as past president of the Western North American Region (WNAR) of the International Biometric Society.

Dr. Alyson Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences at North Carolina State University. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include statistical reliability, Bayesian methods, and the application of statistics to problems in defense and national security. She is a founder and past-chair of the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security.

NISS looks forward to the active role that these leaders will play in the coming years as they help define ways to bring together statisticians and data scientists to address current issues in ways that an organization like NISS can make possible.

NISS would also like to thank Rebecca Doerge (Carnegie Mellon University) and Joel Dubin (University of Waterloo) for their service on the board. They have recently rotated off of the NISS Board of Trustees.